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  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Arline T. Geronimus is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within medicine and social sciences, with particular focus on health disparities, HIV/AIDS research, and issues relating to LGBTQ health and policy.

Their work extensively addresses key topics such as health disparities and outcomes, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, HIV, drug use, and sexual risk, reproductive health and technologies, racial and ethnic identity research, and sex work and related issues.

Geronimus has a significant number of publications in fields including health, sociology and political science, general health professions, infectious diseases, and social psychology. This body of work contributes to understanding complex social determinants of health and health inequities.

Recent papers by Geronimus and collaborators include:

  • "Associations between breast cancer subtype and neighborhood socioeconomic and racial composition among Black and White women," 2020, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • "Weathering in Detroit: Place, Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty as Conceptually Fluctuating Social Constructs Shaping Variation in Allostatic Load," 2020, Milbank Quarterly
  • "Differences in All-Cause Mortality Among Transgender and Non-Transgender People Enrolled in Private Insurance," 2022, Demography
  • "State-Level Policy Stigma and Non-Prescribed Hormones Use among Trans Populations in the United States: A Mediational Analysis of Insurance and Anticipated Stigma," 2021, Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • "US Black-White Differences in Mortality Risk Among Transgender and Cisgender People in Private Insurance, 2011-2019," 2022, American Journal of Public Health

Their frequent co-authors include John Bound, Landon D. Hughes, Kristefer Stojanovski, Elizabeth J. King, and Wesley M. King. Collaborations with these researchers have been consistent and recurrent.

Geronimus's work has been published repeatedly in several journals, including:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Milbank Quarterly
  • Demography
  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine

In 2013, Geronimus was recognized as a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), which highlights their role within the scientific and medical research community.

Best Publications

  • “Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States

    Arline T. Geronimus;Margaret Hicken;Danya Keene;John Bound

  • The weathering hypothesis and the health of African-American women and infants: evidence and speculations.

    A T Geronimus

  • The Socioeconomic Consequences of Teen Childbearing Reconsidered

    Arline T. Geronimus;Sanders Korenman

  • Black/white differences in the relationship of maternal age to birthweight : a population-based test of the weathering hypothesis

    Arline T. Geronimus

  • Damned if you do: culture, identity, privilege, and teenage childbearing in the United States.

    Arline T. Geronimus

  • Use of Census-based Aggregate Variables to Proxy for Socioeconomic Group: Evidence from National Samples

    Arline T. Geronimus;John Bound

  • Excess Mortality among Blacks and Whites in the United States

    Arline T. Geronimus;John Bound;John Bound;Timothy A. Waidmann;Marianne M. Hillemeier

  • Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging?: A Novel Theory and First Population-Based Test of Black-White Differences in Telomere Length

    Arline T. Geronimus;Margaret T. Hicken;Jay A. Pearson;Sarah J. Seashols

  • Understanding and eliminating racial inequalities in women's health in the United States: the role of the weathering conceptual framework.

    Arline T. Geronimus

  • To mitigate, resist, or undo: addressing structural influences on the health of urban populations.

    Arline T. Geronimus

  • On Teenage Childbearing and Neonatal Mortality in the United States

    Arline T. Geronimus

  • Racial Discrimination, John Henryism, and Depression Among African Americans

    Darrell L. Hudson;Harold W. Neighbors;Arline T. Geronimus;James S. Jackson

  • On the Validity of Using Census Geocode Characteristics to Proxy Individual Socioeconomic Characteristics

    Arline T. Geronimus;John Bound;Lisa J. Neidert

  • Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities.

    Nancy L. Jones;Stephen E. Gilman;Tina L. Cheng;Stacy S. Drury

  • Does Young Maternal Age Adversely Affect Child Development? Evidence from Cousin Comparisons in the United States

    Arline T. Geronimus;Sanders Korenman;Marianne M. Hillemeier

  • Race-Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Stressors, and Telomere Length in a Detroit Community-based Sample:

    Arline T. Geronimus;Jay A. Pearson;Erin Linnenbringer;Amy J. Schulz

  • Are benefits conferred with greater socioeconomic position undermined by racial discrimination among African American men

    Darrell L. Hudson;Kai M. Bullard;Harold W. Neighbors;Arline T. Geronimus

  • Inequality in Life Expectancy, Functional Status, and Active Life Expectancy Across Selected Black and White Populations in the United States

    Arline T. Geronimus;John Bound;Timothy A. Waidmann;Cynthia G. Colen

  • Change in birth outcomes among infants born to Latina mothers after a major immigration raid

    Nicole L Novak;Arline T Geronimus;Aresha M Martinez-Cardoso

  • What teen mothers know.

    Arline T. Geronimus

Frequent Co-Authors

Marianne M. Hillemeier
Marianne M. Hillemeier Pennsylvania State University
Sherman A. James
Sherman A. James Duke University
Gilbert C. Gee
Gilbert C. Gee University of California, Los Angeles
Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling University of Oxford
Harold W. Neighbors
Harold W. Neighbors University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Derek M. Griffith
Derek M. Griffith Georgetown University
Amy J. Schulz
Amy J. Schulz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco

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